Emenalo: After ten years at Chelsea, I needed a fresh challenge

Former Chelsea technical director Micheal Emenalo has revealed why he left the London club to join Monaco.

Emenalo, who was part of the 1994 FIFA World Cup Eagles squad, said after being at Chelsea for over a decade he was itching for a fresh challenge.

“The first thing to make clear is that Chelsea Football Club is built on the premise that it can survive without any particular individual or group of individuals,” Emenalo told Talk Sport website.

“It’s a club that is very solid and stable, so me leaving or anybody leaving will not affect anything that happens at the club, at least so I hope, and I think was a part of the aspect of the policy.

“Nothing happened. I had a wonderful ten years at Chelsea, with positive pressure and lot of things that happened.

“I just felt that things were in place and things looked very solid and very stable and I needed a new challenge.

“When you’ve been at a place for so long, I haven’t really had a chance to step out and breathe and see what’s out there.

“I have been very focused on everything Chelsea and it just came to a time, right bang on ten years, where I felt it was time for me to go and do something else.”